The US Fish and Wildlife Service is hosting a workshop that will feature a series of discussions with researchers, managers, tribes and adjacent landowners to improve wildfire management decision-making for the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge.
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April 7: 9am-1:30pm
April 8: 10am-2:30pm
April 9: 10am-2:30pm
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Workshop agenda
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Read more about the workshop presenters, participants, and organizers:
Presenters (in order of appearance)
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Background Materials -
High-level overview:
- Alaska's changing wildfire environment - Outreach report
- Alaska's changing environment - Outreach report
- Making sense of changing forests in Alaska - Research brief
- Why is Alaska’s ‘firescape’ so sensitive to warming climate - Presentation by Randi Jandt
- Hot topics in Alaska wildfire - Presentation by Lisa Saperstein
- Impacts of increasing wildfire severity on the long-term carbon dynamics of Alaskan boreal forests - Presentation by Michelle Mack
- Best practices for choosing and using climate futures - Presentation by Jeremy Littell. Use passcode: 6A99$bQo
- Yukon Flats climate modeling maps - Modeling results compiled by Jeremy Littell
- Wildfire health and smoke - FairAir series presentation by Emily Fischer
- Climate emergency: feedback loops - Five short films (Note: These videos are provided to educate viewers about the role of greenhouse gasses and climate feedback loops in climate change. Any commentary beyond scientific discussion are those of the producers and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the Alaska Fire Science Consortium.)
Scientific literature:
- Airborne electromagnetic imaging of discontinuous permafrost. Minsley et al. 2012
- Linkages between lake shrinkage/expansion and sublacustrine permafrost distribution determined from remote sensing of interior Alaska. Jepsen et al. 2013
- Edaphic and microclimatic controls over permafrost response to fire in interior Alaska. Nossov et al. 2013
- Fire history and fire management implications in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, interior Alaska. Drury & Grissom 2008
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Maps and figures for reuse
- Yukon Flats NWR fire perimeters 1960-2020 - Map
- Yukon Flats NWR annual acres burned 1960-2020 - Figure
- Yukon Flats NWR reburn fires since 1980 - Map
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Contact AFSC coordinator Alison York For more information.
The live workshop is by invitation only, but a workshop report will be available later this year.